Re: Help requested - trying to build a tool doing whole-tree commits

2012-11-12 Thread ydirson
esr: Junio C Hamano gitster at pobox.com: Perhaps not exactly what you are looking for, but don't we have import-tar somewhere in contrib/fast-import hierarchy (sorry, not on a machine yet, and I cannot give more details). If I recall correctly, that can only be used for original import. You

Re: Help requested - trying to build a tool doing whole-tree commits

2012-11-10 Thread Junio C Hamano
Unknown unknown@unknown.invalid writes: (Apologies if this arrives twice. I'm on the road, with somewhat flaky email.) Because of my work on reposurgeon, I am sometimes asked to produce git repositories for very old projects that not only are still using CVS but have ancient releases not in

Help requested - trying to build a tool doing whole-tree commits

2012-11-09 Thread Eric S. Raymond
(Apologies if this arrives twice. I'm on the road, with somewhat flaky email.) Because of my work on reposurgeon, I am sometimes asked to produce git repositories for very old projects that not only are still using CVS but have ancient releases not in the CVS repository, preserved only as

Re: Help requested - trying to build a tool doing whole-tree commits

2012-11-09 Thread Andreas Schwab
Unknown unknown@unknown.invalid writes: I need a command or command sequence that will commit an entire file tree to a repository... (a) Allowing me to specify committer and author metadata, and (b) deleting paths not present in the previous commit on the current branch, and (c) allowing